Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsMark 14

This waste.

^◦ Religious offices done to Christ for signification, devotion, or honour sake, both then in his life, and now in the Holy Sacrament, be of some (under pretence of better bestowing such things upon the poor) condemned unjustly.

• ◦ Cost religiously bestowed upon Christ and his Church.

Let her alone.

Christ answereth for the devout woman, and for defence of her fact, as we must answer against the ignorant and ill men, when they blame good men for giving their goods to the Church.

Bread.

^◦ This is bread before the Sacramental Words, but the Consecration once done, of bread is made the flesh of Christ. Ambros. li. 4. c. 4. de Sacramentis.

• ◦ The real presence by Consecration.

Chalice.

^◦ Wine and water is put into the Chalice, but is made blood by Consecration of the heavenly word: though to avoid the loathsomeness which would be in the sight of blood, thou receivest that which hath the likeness and resemblance thereof. Ambr. ibidem.

• ◦ Very blood under the form of wine.

22. My body, 24. My blood.

^◦ Whosoever believeth it not to be true that is said, he falleth from grace and salvation. Epiph. in Ancorato. Let us ever give credit to God, and never resist him, though the thing that he saith, seem never so absurd in our imagination, or far pass all our sense and understanding. For his words cannot beguile us, but our sense may easily be deceived. Seeing therefore that he said, This is my body, let us never doubt of the matter. Chrysost ho. 83. in Mat. sub finem.

• ◦ Faith necessary in the B. Sacrament.

He began to curse.

In this one Apostle, Peter, the first and chief in the order of Apostles, in whom the Church was figured, both sorts were to be signified, to wit, the strong and the weak, because without both the Church is not. Aug. ser. 13. de verb. Do. Again, Our Saviour would shew by the example of the chief Apostle ^◦, that no man ought to presume of himself, when neither S. Peter could avoid the danger of mutability, Aug. tract. 66. in Evang. Io. Leo Ser. 9. de Pass. Do.

• ◦ Peter.